LARS GRAUGAARD W/SPECIAL GUEST BRAD SHEPIK at ShapeShifter Lab

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NOV 6 – LARS GRAUGAARD W/SPECIAL GUEST BRAD SHEPIK

Time: 10:00p
Cover: $10

Brad Shepik & Lars Graugaard
A deeply involved listen with Lars Graugaard’s rich take on electronic styles in combination with Drew Gress’ guitar for free improvisation and super-responsive realtime electronics. A unique mix of jazz-guitar and live, realtime and interactive electronica. In an essential jazz approach, the music brings in fresh elements from electronic music and contemporary classical, and together with beat-based street styles it produces a novel and captivating result. The electronics are very versatile and performed on the spot (nothing is pre-recorded), and this flexibility provides that openness for improvisations and inventive flights of fancy that combines so well with the guitar’s rich musical palette....

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NOV 6 – LARS GRAUGAARD W/SPECIAL GUEST BRAD SHEPIK

Time: 10:00p
Cover: $10

Brad Shepik & Lars Graugaard
A deeply involved listen with Lars Graugaard’s rich take on electronic styles in combination with Drew Gress’ guitar for free improvisation and super-responsive realtime electronics. A unique mix of jazz-guitar and live, realtime and interactive electronica. In an essential jazz approach, the music brings in fresh elements from electronic music and contemporary classical, and together with beat-based street styles it produces a novel and captivating result. The electronics are very versatile and performed on the spot (nothing is pre-recorded), and this flexibility provides that openness for improvisations and inventive flights of fancy that combines so well with the guitar’s rich musical palette.
http://soundcloud.com/larsgraugaard/sets/lars-graugaard-and-brad-shepikBorn in Walla Walla, Washington and raised in Seattle, Brad Shepik began playing guitar at age 10, later earning a B.F.A. from Cornish College of the Arts and a Master in Jazz Performance/Composition from New York University. Brad co-lead two the world music tinged trios ‘Triduga’ with accordionist Yuri Lemeshev and Tony Scherr, and ‘Lingua Franca’ with Peter Epstein and Matt Kilmer. Brad’s trio release ‘Places You Go’ received a four-start review in Downbeat’s ‘Best CDs of 2007′ category. In addition to his own groups, Brad Shepik has performed and/or recorded with Paul Motian, Joey Baron, Carla Bley, Charlie Haden, Dave Douglas, Jim Black, Skuli Sverrison and others. More info on http://www.bradshepik.com
Denmark’s Lars Graugaard is a prolific and chameleon-like pioneer who moves with ease between a variety of musical areas. His background lies in a mix of musical styles and roles including composer and performer of classical and contemporary musics. Holding a MA in music performance and a PhD Interactive music allows him a unique and innovative take on electronic music, where he emphasizes music’s expressive capacities in immediately communicative settings.
He has worked with a wide range of artists – in jazz he has played with names such as Mal Waldron, Ed Thigpen, Marilyn Mazur and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen – with releases on small independents and major labels. A multiple recipient of artist grants, Lars now focuses his performing energies on realtime interaction with an entirely unique re-imagining of the possibilities of the 21st century jazz idiom. Lars is Visiting Faculty Artists at NYU Steinhardt, lecturer at Medialogy, Aalborg University (Denmark), composer-in-residence with Grup Moderna, Valencia (Spain) and artistic director of the re-new media arts festival (Denmark).

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